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Congratulations to @Lakshmana who landed a new job and is starting today.

Thanks to @Digium for getting the word out. We just stumbled on this one...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1764325-other-online-it-forums

Also very cool that SW decided to feature it and promote it. Thanks to SW as well!

Softpedia reports on a new open source project that just came to light this past week. UbuntuBSD is an attempt to merge the Ubuntu ecosystem with the FreeBSD kernel, which does not use the much maligned SystemD. This is a very new project but could be very interesting. Use of the BSD kernel means that ZFS is available as a native filesystem (and is used by default) and XFCe is being used as the desktop. Downloads in ISO form are already available for those interested in checking things out.

Scale and Spiceworks are presenting Scale's Can Your Disaster Recovery Plan Cook the Bacon (aka the Waffle House Talk) as a webinar today at noon eastern / 11:00 am central time. @scottalanmiller will be guesting on this webinar to mirror the "jump in" anecdotes from the same Waffle House presentation given in Austin at SpiceWorld back in September.

Sign up and join Scale to find out if your critical data is bacon or sausage.

Congrats to @JeffReady on his new brewery: http://www.townepost.com/indiana/center-grove/centerpoint-brewing/

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...It all began five years ago when Jon Robinson invited Argiris to his house to taste his homebrew beer. The fellow Rose-Hulman graduate was intrigued. The pair began crafting their own recipes and entering competitions. They were having fun and learning a lot, but when they took the Blue Ribbon at the Indiana State Fair in 2014 for their category they knew they had something special. They started kicking around the idea of opening a brewery and developed a business plan. That’s where Center Grove resident and fellow Rose-Hulman graduate Jeff Ready joined the team.....

MangoLassi and Unitrends would like to invite you to participate in a Full day all about Unitrends May 12, 2015

• @Minion-Queen and @scottalanmiller will be posting from SpiceWorld London about the launch of the new addition to Unitrends offerings.

• There will be questions posted by a couple Unitrends installation Engineers and they will be here to answer your questions as well

• There will be giveaways!

• Follow @Minion-Queen on twitter @theminionqueen for other pics and hilarity that happens at SpiceWorld!!

In Germany, a Linux kernel author and the Software Freedom Conservancy have sued hypervisor giant VMware over allegations that VMware has used copyrighted and GPL licensed Linux code belonging to Christoph Hellwig without securing a proper license nor meeting its obligations under the GPL (Gnu Public License v2.) This is an extremely serious lawsuit as the players involved are very large and the codebase in question is very valuable. In question is the VMware vmkernel, the company's likely most valuable technological asset. VMware asserts that it has done nothing wrong.

Under the terms of the GPL, if GPL code has been used in another product, that other product is, in turn, automatically licensed under the GPL. That means that VMware faces the potential scenario where the vmkernel, and therefore the majority of ESXi itself, is GPL'd making it open and free to the world and no longer under VMware's control. Linux, KVM and Xen, for example, would have unfettered access to use the code and merge projects.

The question will likely come down to whether or not the two parties can provide that code truly was or was not misappropriated. It is a common statement made about VMware that they have used Linux code in their products, but that claim is based on the misconception that the shell used on ESXi, which has no relationship to Linux, is Linux and therefore ESXi is Linux. That misconception is nothing more than that and is completely unrelated to this question of whether or not VMware has accidentally or intentionally used copyrighted, GPL'd code in their products.

Red Hat's new Fleet Commander system is designed to manage RHEL and Fedora desktops at scale. FC combines Cockpit and FreeIPA to give group policy like control to the RH ecosystem.

https://fleet-commander.org/

Description: One hour deep dive session on understanding the Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager). Would cover theory and relationship to MD RAID, when to use, real world examples of setting up from physical device to file systems, extending, shrinking, merging and other practical tasks.

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A group of failed ransomware makers are on their third failed attempt at encrypting Linux based web servers. The problem? Over and over again they are unable to make their encryption secure and researchers are quickly able to overcome the encryption and reverse it without needing to pay the ransom.

Ever wondered? Everyone does. That the US and UK are major readers of the site is no surprise. Here are the current traffic leaders.

Other major areas include Serbia and Croatia. India passing the UK is recent. UK had been number two for a bit.

In a mark of abject embarrassment for the Crown, it has been discovered that the flagship of the British Navy, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, is running Windows XP and falls below the home line. No surprise to those working in IT, the government and military have failed to live up to even the most basic security and stability standards. That's right, chances are the little SMB businesses that you see day in and day out are likely not just taking security more seriously than the British Navy, but are more competent to do so.

The British Ministry of Defense shows the hubris of a first time SMB failing IT manager in claiming that they are unique and therefore don't need security precautions like everyone else does: "The Ministry of Defense has argued that the nuclear submarine system does not need an updated operating system simply because when the warship sails into the sea, it is isolated and hence, does not stand a great chance of getting hacked. Hence, the carrier has only been armed with a team of cyber specialists to defend it from cyber attacks, Lieutenant Commander Nick Leeson stated." This, of course, is a shocking embarrassment for anyone serving in the British armed forces knowing that they report to a command chain that should be fired from the most junior of IT roles.

This is a complete failure of the military and government here and shows that the safety of the brave men and women serving the Crown aren't given the same consideration a junior admin would give their ripped DVD collection. Hubris has no place in IT, it is the outright enemy of security and what we need to do.

Google is concerned about the attack vector risks posed by Intel's UEFI system and is looking to replace it with their own Linux-based NERF BIOS system that would make the BIOS layer safer and open.

Description: Demonstrate, explain and compare leading free, open source network monitoring solutions such as Zabbix, Observium and Nagios to demonstrate what they can do, how they compare to each other and what each brings to the table.

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Facebook has reporting saving over $2,000,000,000 USD by leveraging Open Compute in their datacenters.